Cute overload warning:- There are 15 videos of that same beautiful kitten/cat. I especially enjoyed the three earliest ones from a year ago ~ notably the one where it arches its back to square up to the “intruder cat” in the floor mirror.

Cats don’t pay attention to visible dirt on either their own bodies or those of other cats, so using dirt for the mirror test is meaningless.

When Baihu first came in from the outside, he reacted to the floor mirror, but with wary curiosity, not as if he thought that it was another cat. That passed quickly and he soon ignored the mirror.

Then, after he…ah…got tutored and came home with the Cone of Shame (but the floppy blue fabric version), he paid a lot of attention to himself in the mirror — but, again, not as if it were a challenger, and only for a little while.

Tamar, who was still with us at the time, was much cowed by Baihu’s insta-mane. Before, she was much quicker to show aggression towards Baihu.

So, to any animal behaviorists out there, that’s what I’d suggest: tailor the visual cue to something that actually has significance to the species. Horses communicate a lot with their ears, so maybe something that visibly changes the shape of a horse’s ears would do the trick. Find a bird with sexual dimorphism limited to cranial plumage, and give it a cosmetic sex change. That sort of thing.

As a thank you here’s a great Beatles dress rehearsal with the boys coping rather well [harmony-wise] despite the screaming girlies. A superbly involved & enthusiastic audience in pre-“awsome”-speak U.S.A. Better in many ways to the broadcast version although that’s pretty good too.

“It is said that cats have the ability to jump 5 times as high as the length of their body. Since the average cat is about 30 cm, this translates to roughly 150 cm. (For reference, Savannah Cats, which can jump over 2 meters, are over 40 cm in length.)”

he could jump over a 12 ft. wall. How does that compare with the kitty?

Well, I found our old cat in the back garden one day looking slightly the worse for wear. To get into the back garden, she had to climb over either one or two 8ft brick walls.
By “worse for wear” I mean various cuts and abrasions, pulled and twisted muscles, a broken rear leg and mud prints of a car tyre over said leg.
Somehow, I doubt that Jackie would have been particularly fazed by a 12ft wall. Whether she could have been motivated to climb over it, instead of insisting that the staff open the gate for her … is a different question.
(That was about 1979, maybe ’78 ; she took the one-way trip to relief from stomach cancer in July 1983.)

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generally,
A cat can jump up to five times its own height.
The average cat is about 30cm tall.
This means the average cat can jump 1.5 meters.
(For reference, this Savanna cat is over 40cm tall)

Speaking of amazing cats, I hurt from laughing at this post. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

If you need help wrapping packages this season, ask a Cat. Although Dolly did a pretty good job last night with Daddy’s package. We only went through 3 sheets of paper. LOL Enjoy these directions from Judi and the “me too dog” Dolly Madison at KnittingParadise.com

Wrapping Presents with a Cat Clear large space on table for wrapping present.

Go to closet and collect bag in which present is contained, and shut door.

Repeat previous step as often as is necessary (until you can hear cat from outside door)

Lay out last sheet of paper. (This will be difficult in the small area of the toilet, but do your best)

Discover cat has already torn paper. Unlock door go out and hunt through various cupboards, looking for sheet of last year’s paper. Remember that you haven’t got any left because cat helped with this last year as well.